HIST-1107EL Quiz: REDISCOVERING CULTURAL HERITAGE

• School: Laurentian
• Department: History / Histoire
• Course: HIST-1107EL
• Professor: Pierre Cameron

Document Summary

Rediscovering heritage" appears to be a much deeper strand in the making of the cultures of. The 20th and 21st century offer influential examples of rediscoveries (or rewritings") of cultural heritage from the viewpoint of, for instance, feminism and non-western perspectives. The renaissance also shows the rise of modern subjectivity: advanced techniques of perspectivism in painting, and new ways to approach the inner life of literary characters. But it is also the time when colonial exploration starts, and the renaissance therefore also shows europe in its relation to other parts of the globe. To explore this geographical subjectivity" and the ensuing eurocentrism, the theme closes with marjane satrapi"s. Persepolis, a graphic novel which is a story of exile and return in the 1980s, from vienna to. There was no sudden change, no linear progress and in reality things did not change for a large group of people. New technologies and rediscovery of old ones.